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Fire-fighting vehicles for your mission.
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Applications
Rescue, extinguish, recover
When the mission begins, every second counts. Which is why you need emergency vehicles that are fast, reliable and easy to handle. Whether as a fire-fighting tanker, rescue vehicle, equipment truck or with a turntable ladder: Mercedes‑Benz trucks form the basis for a large number of fire-fighting vehicles and, thanks to the wide product range, also offer you the right vehicle concept for your mission.
When you're working, you need fire-fighting tankers that offer sufficient volume for extinguishing water and enough space for equipment. Regardless of whether you are facing a forest fire, flood or industrial deployment, or whether you need a manoeuvrable and compact vehicle or a powerful and resilient vehicle: with its flexible combinations of body options and water tanks, Mercedes‑Benz Trucks offers you a portfolio of fire-fighting vehicles and tankers that will include the right solution for you and your team.
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If your mission takes you into difficult-to-reach terrain, you need a vehicle that impresses with its outstanding off-road capability, but also has sufficient tank capacity, capacity for extinguishing agents, a self-protection system, heat protection ex works or, for example, a self-recovery winch. Mercedes‑Benz trucks are durable and robust and are ideally equipped for extreme applications with their pump-and-roll system and the optionally available crewcab or roof hatch.
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Whether you are working in narrow alleys in the old town, contending with dense traffic in the metropolis or carrying out operations in floods: with aerial rescue and articulated mast platforms as well as turntable ladders in various vehicle variants to suit your needs, Mercedes‑Benz trucks ensure you are equipped for all your operations at altitude – compact and manoeuvrable or low and resilient.
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The flexible and efficient trucks from Mercedes‑Benz provide the right basis for the diverse challenges of firefighting. Whether in the event of residential fires, industrial fires, traffic accidents or technical assistance – they offer you the fastest possible response capability and can be individually adapted to your application requirements. With a water tank, fire extinguisher pump as well as protective and rescue equipment, you can ensure that both the rescue team and the required material arrive at the scene of the incident reliably with your Mercedes‑Benz truck.
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If you need to be flexibly equipped for your deployment locations, you have reliable and efficient partners at your side with the equipment and tool vehicles from Mercedes‑Benz Trucks. You can even reconfigure several vehicles in your fleet thanks to the roll-off container system. Depending on the mission, you can transport the relevant materials to the action zone that will help you with your task. You can adapt your fleet to different purposes thanks to vehicles that perform in urban traffic or offroad, are capable of transporting small or large teams and carry a wide range of bodies.
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Ensure fire safety when refuelling, remove traces of oil, extinguish engine fires: at the airport, you have to deal with demanding and versatile operations. All of this requires you to be on site quickly and efficiently. That’s why the robust and reliable airport fire-fighting vehicles from Mercedes‑Benz Trucks provide you with very high performance and extensive equipment options.
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When dealing with extreme events, you need special emergency vehicles: torrential rain, earthquakes or NBC protective measures may lead to evacuations or require other logistics tasks. Mercedes‑Benz Trucks are technically reliable, robust and resilient partners for your tasks, getting you and your team to the job site as safely and quickly as possible.
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Models
Flexible bodies on a reliable basis
With the various equipment options, you are well equipped for your missions. The following Mercedes‑Benz trucks form your basis for this.
Extreme off-road Unimog
If your missions take you off-road, you need a robust truck. The extreme off-road Unimog offers a wide range of options: equipped with thermal protection or a roof hatch and offering a fording capability of up to 1.2 m, it can also cope with extreme operations – whether as a fire-fighting tanker, equipment and rescue vehicle, industrial fire-fighting vehicle or other special vehicle.
Unimog implement carrier
Do you need a manoeuvrable and compact vehicle in your fleet that is particularly flexible in its application options? Then the Unimog implement carrier with its compact vehicle concept, short wheelbase and high performance offers you the support you need. With its all-wheel drive and high ground clearance, the Unimog implement carrier also masters challenging applications – as a fire-fighting tanker or equipment and rescue vehicle, whether for ambulance transport or as a swap body vehicle.
Econic
Dealing with dense urban traffic? The Econic is the perfect truck for you. The panoramic windscreen and glazed folding door allow you to keep a close eye on the traffic situation, and thanks to the low seating position, you are at eye level with the traffic. Its low overall height and compact wheelbase make it easier for you to get through complex traffic situations. As a fire service truck, the Econic offers you numerous, variable body options – with a turntable ladder, roll-off containers or as a fire-fighting tanker.
Atego
If you need a manoeuvrable vehicle that enables low-drawn bodies, the Atego is the right truck for you. Whether used as a tanker or auxiliary fire-fighting vehicle, command and control vehicle, equipment trolley or turntable ladder: thanks to its low cab height, bodies with a body height of 3,300 mm* and optional centre seat can be installed without any problems. With wheelbases from 3,610 mm to 4,760 mm or weight categories up to 16.8 tonnes, there is a wide range of options to configure your Atego precisely for your needs. With the optional crewcab, you can also transport a large team. Furthermore, it is robustly designed and offers special equipment ex works, including: packages for fording capability of up to 800 mm, PowerShift transmission with fire service drive programme, Allison 6‑speed torque converter transmission with or without retarder as well as PTOs for centrifugal extinguishing pumps, cable winches and generators in high and low positions.
* Acc. to DIN standard
Arocs
With the Arocs, you have a powerful and versatile truck at your side that offers you advantages such as a 10‑tonne front axle, fording capability of up to 900 mm, powerful power take-offs, PowerShift transmission with fire service drive programme and a host of safety systems as standard. With engine outputs of up to 460 kW/625 hp, wheel configurations from 4x2 to 8x8 and weight variants from 18 to 48 tonnes, you can get to work with a robust and resilient helper that impresses with its ground clearance and comes ex works with engageable or permanent all-wheel drive. With the optional hydraulic all-wheel drive HAD, you can also improve traction and manoeuvrability on rough terrain. This makes the Arocs particularly reliable, whether as a tank fire-fighting vehicle, heavy-duty recovery vehicle, swap body vehicle or heavy-duty crane vehicle.
Actros and eActros
Whether it’s large quantities of water and extinguishing agent or heavy equipment in roll-off containers, the Actros is the right logistics vehicle for your fire service deployment. Whether as a swap body vehicle or as an emergency command vehicle with a telecommunications body, heavy-duty recovery vehicle or heavy-duty crane vehicle: the Actros is your functional partner with a very high degree of operational capability. Its full air suspension ensures particularly gentle transport. And the optional steered trailing axles ensure that the Actros is a manoeuvrable and reliable partner in the fire service sector, despite its size. Emergency workers on the move are also well protected in the Actros thanks to the safety systems and in the battery-electric drive version, are even locally CO2‑neutral.
Zetros
Whether you need to transport pumps, material or equipment, whether you are treating water as part of your mission or whether you are completing versatile extinguishing, rescue and recovery operations: the Zetros is the perfect special vehicle for fire service operations, international aid organisations or anyone whose missions involve crisis areas. Thanks to this reliable American cab truck, you can get your job done reliably even in remote locations. Because it has built for precisely this purpose, with its robust design, ride comfort, payload and performance.
Custom Tailored Trucks
Your truck as a customised design
If you want your truck to be as unique as you are, then the Mercedes‑Benz Trucks plants in Wörth and Molsheim are here for you. Here, professionals fulfil those special requirements that go beyond standard production. You are also provided with a manufacturer’s warranty for these custom-made vehicles and benefit from the worldwide Mercedes‑Benz Trucks Service.
Success stories
On the move with the fire service
Fighting forest fires, providing technical assistance: supported by innovative technology and reliable trucks, firefighters all over the world save lives. What makes the special vehicles from Mercedes‑Benz Trucks so very special and how do firefighters use them to master extreme challenges? Immerse yourself in the stories that describe the everyday life of the fire service and be inspired by the power and precision of the trucks.
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